Journal of Engineering Education Transformations ,

Volume 36 , No. 2 , October 2022 , ISSN 2349-2473, eISSN 2394-1707

10.16920/jeet/2022/v36i2/22150

Overcoming Covid19 Effect to Implement NAAC:

Mind Mapping

Suresh Akella1, Kantipudi MVV Prasad2

1
CEO, Akella Systems (Incubation Center) & Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
2
Director of Advancements, Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering
Sreyas Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India
1
s4akella@gmail.com ,
2
mvvprasad@sreyas.ac.in

Abstract :The sudden impact of Covid19 in India
coincided with the NAAC assessment submission
decision at Sreyas Institute of Engineering &
Technology at Hyderabad, India. Institute decided to
document the upgraded National Assessment and
Accreditation Council (NAAC) version and submit it
to the NAAC board during February 2020; Covid19
started spreading in India. By March first week, a total
lockdown started, and all educational institutions
were closed. Along with quickly adapting to online
classes, online examinations for the benefit of
student's the staff also adopted the online media to
complete the NAAC documentation as per the new
standards laid by NAAC. To motivate the staff, who
were technically knowledgeable, a lateral thinking
approach was adopted. The criteria aspects were
mapped to the socio, spiritual, scientific, and
management aspects to bring the group together to
focus on achieving their common goal for the institute
of achieving the assessment and approval of the
upgraded NAAC procedures and standards. Within
the Covid locked down period of about five months,
the required five years of data of all aspects of all
criteria were collected with co-operation among the
staff, and the submission was completed in September
of 2020. This report is to focus on the mind mapping
used initially to bring the faculty team together for
Suresh Akella
CEO, Akella Systems (Incubation Center) & Professor,
Dept.of Mechanical Engineering
s4akella@gmail.com
preparing the NAAC Document. All seven criteria of
the NAAC system were mapped to socio, scientific
and spiritual practices through which all humans were
brought up. The relationship is communicated via
zoom meetings to all staff and the criteria in charge.
Commitment improved as they related the known
imbibed knowledge they possessed.
Keywords: Covid19; Mind Mapping; NAAC;
Baghavad Gita; Engineering Institute; Pedagogy.
I. Introduction
The human mind is a bundle of biochemicals that
generate paths of electric fields for developing ideas,
following instructions, giving priorities, putting
efforts into completing committed work. Edward de
Bono [1] explained why some people always seem to
have new ideas while others of equal intelligence
never does. The old patterns of thinking can be closed,
and new ways can be developed as the basis for
mapping knowledge of common interest and
awareness to the NAAC criteria and discussing with
all to develop similar mind patterns. The areas of
common knowledge points are addressed here.
SWOT analysis [2], the success of any project is
dependent on the correct estimation and knowledge of
the Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
of the team who take the project. Early planning of this
awareness helps set the right persons in the right place
to complete the job within the required timelines.
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The outcome of any academic institution is the
students' performance in the examinations. Exam
results, Akella et al., mapped [3] a Gaussian
distribution to the exam results of boys and girls of
different branches for engineering education.
Students of many engineering colleges in Telangana
are affiliated with universities. Examination
adherence to the university schedule constraints the
othe r activities planned like the NAAC
documentation. H. L. Rathva [4] explained the five
elements of nature, as described in the Vedic
scriptures, to control nature Earth, Water, Fire, Air,
and Ether. Knowing its importance will help in
making the environment a friend to humans and
nature to life. Realization of why Covid19 could
overcome our inherent strength of immunity to fight
such a virus should be contemplated.
Pratik Patel [5], has presented the Plan-Do-Check-
Act (PDCA) cycle. However, the method is applicable
to process, business and organization as generally
utilized by the industry. PDCA is proposed here for the
Internal Quality Improvement of the Institute
pedagogy.
Benzon & Hays [6] classified natural intelligence
as being grouped into five classes that operate the
neural tissues. (1) The modal principle subserves of
feelings, (2) The diagonalization principle subserves
the decision principle subserves coherence, (3)
Action, (4) The discrete resolves into a figural
principle, and the fifth activity (5) The indexing
principle, which is implemented through the neural
mechanisms of language. These principles work as
ordered modes. The present work considers the four
modes of Buddhi, Manas, Chitta, and Aham, which
operate with a centered Atma as the core, is written in
the Vedic scriptures.
G. Binnig et al. [7] used Artificial Intelligence to
understand if machines can be made to think like
humans. The complex thinking procedure of the mind
is not completely understood, but we approximate
machines to operate with some assumed algorithms of
data acquisitions, analysis, and operations. This
ability to handle unknown new situations with the
available historical data is regarded as intelligence. In
machine learning, we have control over the design of
the intelligence, and we can modify it as we feel
required. Similarly, in this work, we assume that the
human mind, our natural intelligence, can also be
mapped to think in the way we feel is required to solve
the problems at hand. We do not give any algorithms
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for the mind to follow as it can formulate efficient
ones, unknown to us.
Another important aspect of any activity is the
growth, both at personal knowledge and career actions
and for the institute activities. Growth can be
associated with an accelerated increase. Many models
represent values that increase with time. Shape
functions such as involute models, exponential
models, cycloidal profiles. Other forms can be used,
but the Fibonacci increase in growth is often seen in
nature, which can fit better. Fibonacci can be used in
gigantic shapes of change like the galaxies or for small
shapes of sunflower seeds formation. Whereas an
Involute profile is used in a finite change to increase
and then decrease form like in a gear tooth. Jeffrey R.
Chasnov [8] defined the Fibonacci series and the
golden ratios. In nature, these growth patterns are
visualized, correlated, and established. To make this
growth happen according to a pattern shown is an
intricate management challenge.
The common platform that relates to many of our
team members is Goparaju Purna Sudhakar [9], who
used Baghavad Gita in his Ph.D. research. He felt it is
relevant in today's stressful work demands. Baghavad
Gita, BG, can improve morale, build confidence,
bring assertiveness, create job satisfaction. BG can be
used to provide a balanced personal and work-life.
Many international companies are using Bhagavad
Gita to have matured mindset in their employees and
yet meet their business objectives. Harmony among
all the stakeholders makes the path of growth smooth.
Bhavesh A. Kinkhabwala, Ravi Gor [10], narrated
the Adi Sankaracharya, A saint spreading Vedic
knowledge across India during the 8th century. He
was a young boy of about seven years who was gifted
with Vedic knowledge and took up sannyasa, giving
up worldly life to revive true dharmic Hinduism. He
was acclaimed as the Bhagwatpad Jagadguru Adi
Shankaracharya, a world guru in all scriptural
knowledge. He formed four Matts on the four North,
West, South & East corners of the country to represent
the four Vedas. These Matt places of worship still
prevail as the pillars of the Hindu Sanatana Dharma.
The present initiation of the work to motivate our
staff to complete NAAC work is an important
milestone for the institute. Datta Sawant [11]
described the Best Practices of Top (NAAC)
Accredited Institutes (State-wise). The NAAC [12]
developed and published the upgraded manual [12]
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for the institutes to follow. Sreyas Institute follows the
Affiliated UG Colleges format for its accreditation. A
series of best practices of various institutions as per
seven criteria of assessment and accreditation, some
are case studies. Best practices reflect the credibility
and cheerful life of a college.
Though ancient, the Sanatana, time immemorial,
knowledge in the scriptures is very vast. The concepts
derived indicate the reliance on ancient scripts even in
the current day global business scenario. Baghavad
Githa, [13] written by Veda Vyasa, Is the learning by
Arjuna the greatest warrior who requested God,
Baghavan, Sri Krishna to be his guru to teach him if it
is right to fight a war with his cousins and friends and
relatives which will be destroying everyone. Lord
Krishna gives total knowledge of what is right and
wrong in all aspects of life in 700 slokas, poems.
These poems provide the basic rules to lead a
righteous life. The inputs for this knowledge of
Bhagavan were also available in the Vedas [14],
eternal, Sanatana scriptures.
Patanjali [15] wrote this in Yoga Sastra, the
knowledge of meditation. The concept of thought-
related action is given as Vritti. It has two modes
Pravritti, attitude, the external operations form.
Nivritti is the inner character. This model has
flexibility in defining the reformation of patterns in
mind.
The period of scheduled NAAC work coincided
with the Covid19 pandemic. This caused concern
about whether we could meet the schedules planned
by our institute. Uday K umar et al. [ 16] ,
chronologically mapped the occurrence of the
Covid19 virus attack in India from the end of
Februray2019 until May. Our NAAC work was also
planned for this period. This mind tuning by mapping
important knowledge to NAAC criteria was initiated
to put all members of the NAAC group in a common
platform of planning and execution. The activities
were primarily remote with network connections to
share data, discuss analysis, review and validate. The
technical institutions were severely affected as the
government did not want to risk students acquiring the
Covid virus as they can transmit widely in the
classrooms. Strict implementation of only having
distance education was possible. New skills were
obtained by staff to convert to online classes. Pravat
Kumar Jena[17], in his paper, summarized the impact
of the Covid-19 pandemic on Indian academic
systems. The pandemic severely affected the Indian
schools, colleges, and higher education fields.
The disruption was total and for a prolonged
period. Alternate routes were quickly evolved and
adopted to minimize the effect on psychology and
maintain the academic schedules to provide timely
graduation. In this study, it was important for the
institute to provide online classes to all branches and
sections of the four-year engineering programs
operating from home with all Covid constraints of any
movement outside. Also, to provide extra time for
completing the NAAC formatted five years data with
analysis requires ultimate commitment from all staff.
To obtain this commitment, this program of mapping
knowledge onto the NAAC criteria was initiated. The
assumption was to provide a uniform opening of mind
patterns and goal paths in all members to benefit the
institute in the long term, which is for the 'Sreyas',
long-term happiness of all the institute's stakeholders.
2. Mind Mapping
Indian Scriptures, Patanjali [15], the sage who
introduced meditation forms, yoga to control the self,
has divided the control of a person by four parts
centered at Atma the hub, Figure 1. The four parts of
the mind are Buddhi which is intelligence and takes
decisions from inputs of the other three parts. In a way,
it controls the mind-body and soul, Atma.
Chitta is the record keeper, the memory of the
being. It has a record of the past, present and will take
it forward into the next James, lives. It has
gyanaindriyas or knowledge senses. The past,
Vasanas, the present Samskaras, attitude is driven by
this part. The control of the mind is through bio-
electro-chemical patterns and reactions. These
reactions are patterns, Vritti created by your
interaction of the four parts of the mind.
Manas is the external operating mind assisted by
the five senses, eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin. The
actions of the body and the four arms are controlled by
the manas to do physical work.
Ahamkara is the identity of the person, I. It's
hereditary, origin, name, qualification, nation,
religion, competence, fame, richness, etc. It is driven
by desires, Kama. It lives in duality; likes-dislikes,
happiness-sorrow, hatred-love, mine-thine, etc.
Atma is subtle to all our five senses, residing at the
center. It is the destination of the distinctiveness of
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Fig 1: A four-way control of human activities [15]
total happiness. Sat-Chit-Ananda, Being-aware-bliss.
In the spiritual path, the Chitta, Manas, and Ahamkara
paths, patterns are closed. So the mind, Buddhi,
resides at the center of mind, the Atma the hub of a
being, a state of pure happiness.
In this work, the educational system brings all
Sreyas Institute stakeholders especially, the staff who
are the core of establishing the academic procedures.
An effective and efficient educational system will
develop students to be global achievers in the
profession of their choice. This is possible only if the
entire staff have the same culture of values, integrity,
purpose, the commitment to oneness in body,
knowledge & thought. The concepts of the following
Pedagogy are shared with the students by verbal
presentations and by display in course notes. The
unity of students and staff in attaining academic goals
propagates through the "SHREYAS" of the institute.
A. Sreyas: The story of Nacciketa
Nachiketa, a boy five-year-old was gifted by his
father, to lord Yama, the lord of righteousness,
dharma, as an offering. The young boy waits for three
days meditating at his doorstep. When Yama comes,
he is impressed by this boy's devotion and gives him a
boon of knowledge which spells the right way to live,
Sreyas or to while away in pleasures Preyas. Sreyas,
the institute's name, drives the stakeholders,
management, staff, and students on a righteous path.
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Evaluating all activities that are taken and
commitments that are made, and the actions
performed are for the long-term benefit of the society.
Sreyas leads to perpetual happiness as opposed to
Preyas, which provides temporary short-term
pleasure.
This mind mapping exercise aims to tune all staff
to act towards a common goal psychologically.
Unifying thoughts from Baghavad Gita, Scriptures,
Science, Engineering, and Management oriented all
the staff to a righteous common path. This path of
Sreyas made us commit to establishing and following
the NAAC defined pedagogy.
Fig. 2:Nachiketa bowing to Lord of Dharma, Yama[18]
3. The Goal Of Sreyas Institute Is To Establish A
Quality System To Enhance Pedagogy
Sreyas Institute of Engineering & Technology is
affiliated with Jawaharlal Nehru Technological
University, located in Hyderabad, India. It was
established in 2011 in a very green eco campus with
international-level resources for education. The
institute's Governing body formed an Internal Quality
Assurance Cell, IQAC, to establish, monitor, and
enhance pedagogy. OBE, an institutional outcome-
based education, was formed based on Bloom's
Taxonomy levels. Obtained National Board of
Accreditation, NBA ranking for the programs
incorporated.
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Further, the institution's quality was subject to
assessment and accreditation by the national council,
NAAC. This report is the experience of unifying all
the stakeholders, management, staff, students,
parents, and society to a mindset by mapping the
allotted seven criteria in NAAC, shown in Table 1.
The statutory requirements of each criterion are
provided by the council with required formats and
expected standards. All staff of each of the
departments, programs are allotted an aspect to
concentrate on. This work attempted to bind all by a
common mindset to attain the common goal of quality.
The mapping is basically from the academic systems'
Table 1 :Naac Criteria For Affiliated Institutes
Marks Criteria
100 1. CURRICULAR ASPECTS: Design, Develop, Planning,
Implementation, Flexibility, Enrichment, Feedback.
350 2. TEACHING & LEARNING EVALUATION: Enrolment, Diversity,
Learning Process, Teacher Quality, Evaluation, Performance outcomes,
Student feedback.
110 3. RESEARCH, INNOVATION, EXTENSION: Support, Resources,
Environment, Consultancy, Extension, collaboration, Publications,
Innovations Patents.
100 4. INFRASTRUCTURE & LEARNING RESOURCES: Facilities, IT,
Library, Maintenance.
140 5. STUDENT SUPPORT & PROGRESSION: Support, Progression,
Participation & Alumni
100 6. GOVERNANCE LEADERSHIP: Vision Mission, Strategy,
Empowerment, Finance, IQAC, Management.
100 7. INSTITUTIONAL VALUES & BEST PRACTICES: Social
Responsibility, Best practices & Distinctiveness
4. Naac Criteria Related To Shared Knowledge
The seven criteria are provided by NAAC. The
sub-criteria are considered to collect the designed
mind Mapping content. This is not a general mapping
but would depend on the group's culture and their
common knowledge. The topics chosen should not be
outside the present knowledge of the members. The
topics like water or manure offered to plant should be
readily accepted.
An easily absorbed mapping of known information
will open the patterns of thought, vritti, in all the
minds uniformly. A path for the common goal in
establishing the NAAC procedures becomes
attainable and with sustenance.
known prior spiritual and ethical knowledge as
defined in the NAAC Criteria.
The following part of the document describes
different aspects of mind mapping. It is like nurturing
a plant by plowing the ground and adding manure
watering to grow to its full potential. Growing is the
inherent property or nature. We add our inputs to
accelerate its performance. Similarly, the defined
methods, formats, documents, and procedures defined
by NAAC are the inherent needs. The mapping to
motivate and create open patterns of common
mindsets the mapping given below is given to all
members of NAAC implementation.
Mapped To
PDCA, Gaussian Distribution, Fibonacci
Series
Svetaketu, BG, Shankaracharya
BG, Elon Musk, Industrial Projects
5S
SWOT, Kaizen, BG, Meditation
Nalanda, Nagarjuna, BG
BG, 5 Elements of Nature,
Shankaracharya.
A. Curricular Aspects:
Deming's cycle or Plan Do Check Act (PDCA)
cycle, shown in figure 3 is the basic operation
procedure to obtain a goal in a given time period. The
curricular aspects are scheduled by the university,
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, to which
our university is affiliated. The aspects are governed
by the central Government Under Graduate Council,
University Grants Commission (UGC); All India
Council for Technical Education (AICTE); Telangana
State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE). The
norms of the 8th-semester engineering program are
planned with the schedules, syllabus, and examination
s ch e d ul e s g i v en . Wi t h in t h e b o u n d ar y o f
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i nd ep en d en ce, th e p la nn i n g o f r e so u r ces ,
implementation and execution, review of outcomes,
Outcome Based Education, OBE, and finally, areas of
gaps are The Engineers who graduate from a normal
Fig 3. PDCA Cycle [5]
distribution of overall attainments of professional
academic and technical skills in practical application.
The natural distribution Figure 4. Has the following
features.
 Skills and Academics form the completeness of
Engineer; flexible courses are provided.
 Projects are added to perform to customer
satisfaction and fulfill present industrial norms.
 The university defines the central core subjects by
about 64%.
Fig 4. Gaussian, Normal distribution [3]
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 The optional flexible courses might give
completeness to present needs.
 UGC and AICTE have evolved a new policy with a
Major program with 64% credits and a Minor
program with 36% credits required to obtain
graduation in two fields.
Enhancing the growth, Figure 5. It gives a series of
natural growth, like inlaying sunflower seeds from
center to outside, seashell of a snail, galaxies shape.
The series is given by discrete number series. 0, 1, 1, 2,
3, 5, 8,13, 21, 34… the series defined by Fn=Fn-1+Fn-
2. Any term is a sum of the previous two terms. This
series is popular as many natural occurrences fit this
increasing scale of growth. Another important aspect
is that the ratio of Fn-1/Fn =6.18 and Fn-2 /Fn =3.82
are constant for any number of occurrences, n.
Leonardo Da Vince's aspect exclusively on human
parts to be possessing and named it Golden Ratios.
Also, the Indian sages observed this series of
occurrences in nature. They created the swastika with
the arms to the Golden Ratios. The institute's growth
in all aspects should follow the Fibonacci series.
Fig 5. Fibonacci series of numbers [8]
B. Teaching & Learning Evaluation
kārpaṇya-doṣopahata-svabhāvaḥ
pṛcchāmi tvāṁ dharma-sammūḍha-cetāḥ
yac chreyaḥ syān niścitaṁ brūhi tan me
śiṣyas te 'haṁ śādhi māṁ tvāṁ prapannam
“Baghavad Gita 2.7 Verse.”
The verse is when Arjuna, the unbeaten warrior
was confused about why he should have a war with
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relatives, friends. Offered himself to be a disciple of
Lord Sri Krishna and sought SREYAS to quit or to
fight. God, Krishna offered him the knowledge to
make the right decision. That knowledge in verse form
is the Baghavad Gita, BG. Arjuna realized through
this learning.
A true disciple always is protected by the teacher.
In every class, there will be the best students but
require the support of a teacher. A teacher who advises
what SREYAS for him is is continually respected.
Learning always requires dedication discipline, as
revealed by Svetaketu. Figure 6.
Fig. 6: Teacher Blessing Svetaketu “Tat Tvam Asi”[13]
Svetaketu as a five-year boy, was sent to gurukul to
study Vedas, Puranas, Shruthi's, Smruthies, Puranas.
He completed the twelve-year program with top
grades in each aspect. Graded as the highest-rated
performer, he left the ashram and went home. His
father, Udalaka asked him what he learned when he
said that knowledge of the knower was not taught; his
father said his learning was incomplete and sent him
back to the gurukul. His guru said understanding the
'Knower' was a difficult course. Since Svetaketu
insisted that he wanted to learn this knowledge, his
guru offered him to take care of the four hundred cows
in the ashram. He has to take these four hundred cows
to the forest, breed them and return when they number
up to a thousand. Svetaketu lives with the cows, takes
them to the river, bathes them, and grace enjoys new
calves' birth. His life with the cows makes him forget
all his earlier learnings, including the language and
numbers. The students from the ashram keep
watching and counting and tell the guru that the cows
numbered 1000. They lead the cows and Svetaketu to
the ashram, count in front of the guru, and tell him they
count to thousand. The guru negates and says the
count is not thousand but thousand and one. He
Fig. 7: The feet of teacher [15]
blesses Svetaketu, has learned about the knower, and
has attained him. Tat-you and Tvam-HE are Asi-same.
No learning is easy to acquire test your students until
they learn all to perfection.
Student Feedback: Figure 7. It tells the importance
of a teacher by Swamy Adi Shankaracharya tells there
is no achievement more significant than the feet of the
guru, teacher. If we cannot bow down to see our
teacher's feet, no achievement is an achievement, and
no attainment is good enough. A Student should revere
the professor, take his blessings and learn from him.
Earlier, It was teacher-centric learning. The
teacher's feedback was important. Now it is student-
centric teaching. Today's Student feedback is
essential.
C. Research, Innovation, Extension
Research starts with a literature survey. Knowing
what is done before and reported in authentic, Verified
journals or publications. Not only it gives us current
knowledge. We plan to update the technology in
performance, knowledge, production, service, etc.
There are eighteen chapters in Baghavad Gita. At the
end of every chapter, references to the earlier
references are given below. Om Tat Sat iti: The three
sacred words of eternal truth are the beginning of the
scriptures & Vedas. From here is the origin of
Srimadbhagavad Gitasu: The God's verses.
Upanishadsu: Taken from the essence of Vedas which
are Upanishads.
Brahmavidyayam: From the Knowledge of the
Brahma.
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YogaSastre: About the science of Union of the self

with Paramatma.

Sri Krishna Arjuna Samvade: Given by Lord

Krishna during his holy dialogue with his disciple
Arjuna.

The name of the chapter delivered is mentioned.

Innovation: Elon Reeve Musk is a role model for

innovators. Thinking above all other dreams and
making it happen is phenomenal for a person born on
28 June 1971, and building products to building a
business worth 100 billion US$. He is the founder,
CEO, CTO, and chief designer of SpaceX; Tesla;
Boring Company; Neuralink; and OpenAI. Riches
follow a true inventor; the following text is one of his
quotations. A true inventor is always driven by his
drive to follow what could be brought to society to
lead a better life.

"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing,

you are not innovating."

Innovation: Today, there is value for innovations

registered as Intellectual property Rights, IPR. In
Fig. 8:Core competence leads to innovations
Figure 8. The Refrigeration and Airconditioning
group, a new cooling system for Electrical Vehicles, is
seen. Many new ideas are incorporated and will standard should become a habit for allemployees.
qualify for patenting. Patenting an innovation requires Maintaining the academic calendar keeping only
required activities in an institute and flawlessly
novelty, non-obvious work to experts in the area,
executing is important. This provides time
should be socially beneficial, have commercial value,
and be documented. optimization. 5S can be used in planning and in mind
management too.
Infrastructure & Learning Resources:
D. Student Support & Progression:
Maintenance of resources is as essential as
providing the resources. Japanese mastered the The freshmen have an orientation of about two to
maintenance of Resources using the simple 5S, Figure three weeks. The spread of students is very wide.
9, system. It is important at Sreyas Institute as the
availability of world-class Resources. The first step is
sorting the required and useless parts at regular
intervals and sorting them, removing all unwanted
parts as space is important. Also, retrieving is easier
when only required items are made available.

Fig 8. Core competence leads to innovationsThe

next step is keeping the required sorted pieces in
identified places, easy to retrieve. Next, the placed
parts, tools, dies, or machines to be cleaned to shine as
new items ready to use consistently. These three steps
should be practiced becoming a rule or standard.
Finally, the sorting, placing, shining methods to Fig 9. Maintaining Resources 5S [9]
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Some come from Hyderabad city with English as a
medium of instruction. Some come from rural
schools, some from Telugu as a medium of
instruction. There are some students from other states.
These students come with different Strengths,
Weaknesses. A formatted data is taken on different
parameters. An awareness of the opportunities to
Engineers is shared. Also, the threat of a disciplined
approach to learning all key core subjects is not
learned to perfection. Figure 10. Displays SWOT.
Fig 10. SWOT [2]
E. Governance Leadership:
śanaiḥ śanair uparamed
buddhyā dhṛti-gṛhītayā
ātma-saṁsthaṁ manaḥ kṛtvā
na kiñcid api cintayet
Any progress is obtained by continuous small
steps, as told by BG. Just like a steep hill climber.
Complete dedication is required in seeing the hold of
every step, and any wrong move will cause a
dangerous fall. Small steps will lead you to the top of
the mountain without any diversion. The professors
have to teach this discipline of progress in achieving
goals.
Starting an institute affiliated with a university is
so important that it should have a lasting effect over
generations and centuries. Nalanda University in the
400-600AD in northern India was one such university.
The learning there was so rigorous that scholars from
them could guide kings to rule according to dharma
sastra, righteous ways. From China and countries east
of India, it was here that would send their scholars
who would learn the Sanskrit language and take
courses up to 12 years to master this sastra knowledge.
One such Scholar was Professor Acharya Nagarjuna,
who learned at the Nalanda University and came
down to south India, of present-day Andhra Pradesh,
and established a Nagarjuna University, a Centre for
Middle Path, Buddhist teachings. As a tribute to this
great scholar and saint, the Nagarjuna University was
formed in 1975 and later converted to a technical
university and moved to the city of Guntur. Our
institute Sreyas Institute is affiliated to Jawaharlal's
new technological University Hyderabad.
tasmāc chāstraṁ pramāṇaṁ te
kāryākārya-vyavasthitau
jñātvā śāstra-vidhānoktaṁ
karma kartum ihārhasi
BG, IQAC establishes systems: Institutional
Quality Assurance Council, IQAC, is guided by the
verse in BG. Scriptures, rule books have to be
followed without any deviation. The dos and don'ts
specified should be strictly followed by those who
want career growth and should be followed by all. The
work done according to rules will lead to success.
divan bhāvayatānena
te devā bhāvayantu vaḥ
parasparaṁ bhāvayantaḥ
śreyaḥ param avāpsyatha
BG Strategy for Institute happiness: Right strategy
will take the institute to its goal. Baghavad Gita says
mutual understanding is a win-win strategy. Just like
the relationship between humans and God, we pray,
and God provides help. Similarly, the strategy of
mutual co-operation helps the growth of the institute.
Like in the relationships below:
 Stakeholders and Management
 Management and Governing body
 Management & Staff
 Staff & Students
 Students & Society
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F. Institutional Values & Best Practices:
The misuse of natural resources is playing havoc.
Unseasonal rains, storms, melting of polar ice, rise in
water levels, possible shortening of shores, rise in
overall temperatures, change in seasons many
unpredicted environmental changes are happening.
The worst shock to the world is given by the Covid19
virus attack. A more responsible approach to being
friendly to the ecosystem is required. The Indian
scriptures give importance to the 5 elements which
constitute nature and all living beings, Figure 11. It is
also important to move from the gross.
Fig. 11: Environment responsibility [4]
Earth element which can be felt, seen, and held to
more subtle elements. The subtlest element is ether, in
the space between planets that cannot be seen, felt, or
held. Important knowledge is always subtle and
understanding them will lead to the higher plane of
learning.
Distinction: Swami Shankaracharya was revealed
what he is to his guru. Figure 12. He was only seven
years old and was wandering in the forest searching
for the right guru. Suddenly, he knew his guru was
meditating in a covered cave with a small hole the size
for the little finger to enter. He requested his guru to
accept him to be his disciple and bless him the
knowledge. His guru Questioned him, who are you?
To which he revealed himself to be a pure bundle of
happiness representing lord Shiva and nothing else.
He introduced himself, and he says he is not his
name, not the senses, not the elements of nature but a
pure bundle of happiness representing Lord Shiva. He
also said he does not represent the five elements of
nature, nor the five senses direct him any feelings or
emotions do not sway him. He has no relations nor
friends, and he is a pure bundle of happiness
representing Lord Shiva. So happy was the guru he
came out and accepted him as his disciple.
1. A student should revere his professor, take his
blessings and learn from him.
2. Earlier it was teacher-centric learning. The teacher's
feedback was important.
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3. Now it is student-centric teaching. Today student's
feedback is important.
The distinctiveness of the institute and the
professors should be of the highest level so that the
students will also obtain such distinction.
Methodology of the Implementation of Mind
Mapping to complete NAAC documentation as
scheduled. The different views of the heads of the
departments were taken in a brainstorming session
online. It was decided that All staff be trained to take
online classes by first experimenting within their
department staff before presenting to students.
Students will be given multiple inputs like class
notes, videos of online classes if they miss them.
Exams will be conducted both objective type for
testing the concepts and subjective to test the
analytical ability of the subject.
NAAC work will be parallelly taken up. Where
data is required, limited staff with covid precautions
will obtain. They will also help their colleagues by
gathering information for others too, minimizing
physical movements. A motivating class was
requested so that s common goal with knowledge of its
purpose is known to all. With this background, the
above Mind Mapping of NAAC criteria to known
knowledge was conceived and presented to all.
Knowledge was shared as PPTS, and the recorded
Video was circulated to all. The participation of all
staff was total. Heads of the departments who were
made the criteria in charge had online reviews. IQAC,
the central coordinating council reviewed and gave
suggestions for soft copies.
The mission was completed. The documents were
submitted for assessment as scheduled by September
end.
5. Conclusions
 The Covid19 pandemic disrupted the scheduled
NAAC up-gradation to the latest assessing
standards.
 All staff was trained to software skills in accessing
server data and for classroom teaching.
 To motivate the staff and bring them to a common
mindset of meeting NAAC completion.
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 Data mapping is a tool to motivate teams and set
them to a common goal.
 The mapping may be with subjects of common
interest but related topics to be indicative.
 The mapped subjects should not be a repetition of
the real content to be obtained or actions to be
taken.
 The overall unity of the team will enhance, goal
achievement will spread happiness.
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